75GW stations worth across the whole EU in a decade, is undoubtedly possible in principle- consider that when Zaporizhzhia goes back on-line it alone does about 6GW none stop, and had Chenobyl ever had reactors 5 and 6 built, it would have exceeded that by some margin. For very good reasons that long term expansion programme was halted in 1989 and here, further west we do not like that kind of reactor. (radioactive Cumbrian sheep anyone ?)

Is it realistic to build anything very much in the current mentality, where here we seem unable to organise housing, railway electrification (only been doing that for a little over a century), health, education or a myriad of other stuff, and we are not even at war, no I'd say certainly not, In a decade we might still be arguing the toss about planning consents for tidal lagoons and wind farms.

However if one considers the climate change problem as something that does requires a war footing, and we may but we do not, yet at least, then of course it is possible. This may occur if whole countries become uninhabitable, and climate induced migration becomes a real thing, rather than a few economic migrants being something to score political points with floating barges etc . My money is on us knowing better by about 2050.

Mike

75GW stations worth across the whole EU in a decade, is undoubtedly possible in principle- consider that when Zaporizhzhia goes back on-line it alone does about 6GW none stop, and had Chenobyl ever had reactors 5 and 6 built, it would have exceeded that by some margin. For very good reasons that long term expansion programme was halted in 1989 and here, further west we do not like that kind of reactor. (radioactive Cumbrian sheep anyone ?)

Is it realistic to build anything very much in the current mentality, where here we seem unable to organise housing, railway electrification (only been doing that for a little over a century), health, education or a myriad of other stuff, and we are not even at war, no I'd say certainly not, In a decade we might still be arguing the toss about planning consents for tidal lagoons and wind farms.

However if one considers the climate change problem as something that does requires a war footing, and we may but we do not, yet at least, then of course it is possible. This may occur if whole countries become uninhabitable, and climate induced migration becomes a real thing, rather than a few economic migrants being something to score political points with floating barges etc . My money is on us knowing better by about 2050.

Mike